Advanced Animating Problems

[Flopman]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

OK so,
In PowerPoint on Windows XP, you can pop up these windows that let you add in custom timings and make items that go very fast (.5s) go super fast (by typing in .1 seconds). Is there anyway to get these options back in the mac version? You'd think that the more advanced version would be more advanced....

 

[Jeff_Chapman]

With PowerPoint 2008 for Mac, you can select up to five levels of speed for the default animations, with "Very Fast" (0.5s) being the quickest. The speed selector is in the Custom Animation palette, which automatically displays when you select a shape and select Custom Animation from the Slide Show menu.

It doesn't look like there's a way to make the timings go any faster, or to type them in manually.

I wonder what happens, however, if you load a PowerPoint file created in the Windows version which uses super-fast timings like 0.1s into the Mac version?

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

With PowerPoint 2008 for Mac, you can select up to five levels of speed for the default animations,

with "Very Fast" (0.5s) being the quickest. The speed selector is in the Custom Animation palette,
which automatically displays when you select a shape and select Custom Animation from the Slide Show
menu.

It doesn't look like there's a way to make the timings go any faster, or to type them in manually.

I haven't got 2008; in the Win versions, it doesn't always seem that you can type values in (or rather
you can but they don't "take"). The trick there is to type in what you want then hit Enter. Then it
works. Maybe in 2008 too?

 

[Jeff_Chapman]

Yeah, unfortunately with PPT 2008, you just get drop-down menus that can't be typed in, and no input boxes are offered. The only place that uses an input box is the "Delay" variable, but that's not the one we're after here... 8-(

Jeff

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

with "Very Fast" (0.5s) being the quickest. The speed selector is in the Custom Animation palette,
which automatically displays when you select a shape and select Custom Animation from the Slide Show
menu.

I haven't got 2008; in the Win versions, it doesn't always seem that you can type values in (or rather
you can but they don't "take"). The trick there is to type in what you want then hit Enter. Then it
works. Maybe in 2008 too?

Anyone have a copy of PPT 2003 and can record a macro to see what the
VBA object model says about this? Be sure to turn on the hidden stuff.
If my memory is correct, old versions of PPT supported the ability to
type in a value, and on old effects they will for backwards
compatibility, but new effects don't have this capability. That's my
vague recollection about this issue.

-Jim

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Anyone have a copy of PPT 2003 and can record a macro to see what the
VBA object model says about this? Be sure to turn on the hidden stuff.
If my memory is correct, old versions of PPT supported the ability to
type in a value, and on old effects they will for backwards
compatibility, but new effects don't have this capability. That's my
vague recollection about this issue.

Speaking of vague ... I was thinking of slide transitions, not animations. With slides, you can plug in
specific times as I described above, but not with animation speeds. Sorry for the confusion.

PPT 2003 won't record *anything* to do with animations, so that won't help either.

It might be interesting to crack open the XML in the saved PPTX file; be sure to wear your "GEEK" tshirt.
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